[ntp:questions] Re: Clock jumps 1 second every 11 minutes (Linux+SMP+NTP)

Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl at RZ.Uni-Regensburg.DE
Tue Aug 26 10:55:05 UTC 2003


I'm afraid, Linux cannot repair your broken clock (or is it the Redhat
kernel?)

Regards,
Ulrich

google.20.nathanpll at spamgourmet.com (Nathan Parker) writes:

> I'm trying to syncronize the clock on a dual-processor DELL 2600 with
> 3.06 GHz Intel XEONs.  It's running Linux (RH7.3) with
> 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp kernel and NTP v4.1.1.
> 
> Without NTP, the clock drifts 1.07 seconds slow per hour.  With NTPD
> running (to a strat 1 server) with the -x1 option, the clock JUMPS
> FORWARD one second every 11 minutes exactly -- it keeps doing this,
> even when the clock is 20+ seconds fast! Without the -x option, the
> clock still jumps forward but then NTP jerks it back again a moment
> later. I've let it run for days and it never stabilizes. This is very
> disruptive to the real-time signal processing I'm trying to do on this
> machine.
> 
> I dug in the linux kernel source and found that it (apparently) sets
> the BIOS clock from the Linux RTC every 11 minutes -- is this "11
> minutes" a coincidence, or is it related?  What can I do to keep
> proper time on this machine?
> 
>  -- Nathan Parker



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